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TIME TO Scale up LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
The system will work if norms can tolerate shifts of a certain percentage or magnitude Records are an essential part of civil administration. The problem comes in seeking an all-India frame of reference, say for land measurement. This happens because the unit of measurement - acre, bigha, etc — is known...
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Now is the Need For a Reality Check
16 September 2021 | Vinayshil Gautam -
Marine spatial planning
07 September 2021 | Vinayshil Gautam -
PANDEMIC AND SEMINAL EXPERIENCE
31 August 2021 | Vinayshil Gautam -
Scientific thinking & all that goes with it
19 August 2021 | Vinayshil Gautam -
DEALING WITH OTHERS
09 August 2021 | Vinayshil Gautam -
Administering India
26 July 2021 | Vinayshil Gautam -
UNDERSTANDING ETHICS
19 July 2021 | Vinayshil Gautam
SEEKING DIRECTION IN RUSHING WATERS
Many protocols in these testing times are at different stages of evolution COVID times will someday get chronicled.The coverage will have a special place in history. The experience will add to human endeavour to be healthy. The responses to the virus have been diverse in different parts of the globe. Solutions...
Towards higher wisdom
It is best not to push things towards a bigger crisis. Alleviating suffering is the need of the hour The term “learning organisations” has been around in management literature for ages. Like many fashionable phrases, it got its fame because it originated in the West at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...
Assuring Futures
Paradigms of creativity and collaboration alone can lead to recovery, rebuilding and stable futures Most of the communities, perhaps periodically, recall their glorious past in order to show their grandeur. In other cases a narrative is created of the ethnic greatness. Still on other occasions some virtue is picked and held...
Towards green livelihoods
One has to manage it with the strength gained from hindsight, verifiable data and the foresight of a savant Basic human nature has not changed over the thousands of years that mankind has inhabited this planet. What has kept changing is its mode of expression. The primitive man first fought with...
Wisdom cannot be taught
Knowing that a tomato is really a fruit is knowledge but realising that you can’t put it in a fruit salad is wisdom In life, we are all faced with issues of decision-making. William Shakespeare captured it well through the character of Hamlet who wondered, “To be or not to be,...
Creating shared mindsets
There are hurdles and there are facilitations to grasping what is common to human species There are some common elements of mind and temperament across the human species. This is notwithstanding the history of physical anthropology which has studied all parts of the human body and highlighted differences which arose out...
Time to make a fresh start
One needs to look at new approaches to create a world order for the future of the planet and its inhabitants There is often talk of history of the planet and history as a discipline. The bald truth is that most histories are actually recalls of experiences of a limited part...
